A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy who vanished while shopping in Glasgow ended up in Cheshire after a 230-mile train ride.

Police were alerted by Shabaaz Iqbal's anxious mother when he went missing while they shopped in the Scottish city on Saturday. A search was carried out involving 50 police officers and a helicopter.

But the youngster turned up at Macclesfield train station six hours later after somehow catching a southbound train while he was away from his mother. Mrs Iqbal spent Saturday night travelling to collect her son.

A spokesman for Cheshire police said: "We're not quite sure how he ended up hre but he seemed okay. His mum came to pick him up and that looks like the end of the matter.''